Comments on: Rutgers fires men’s basketball coach Mike Ricehttp://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/
College basketball news, features, opinion and everything else.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:58:58 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: daviddmsvcphttp://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/#comment-10931
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:31:23 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10931Yes, the AD should be fired, and so should the president of Rutgers. The governor should also be fired. Heck, let’s just shut down the whole school.. No wait, let’s throw NJ out of the USA.
No, wait,
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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:42:12 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10681Whoa, an idiot speaks.
]]>By: michaelmcqueen2013http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/#comment-10591
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:39:13 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10591This man behaved like a total lunatic. This is not coaching in any way, shape or form. A coach is suppose to be an example to his players. Not only to show them how to play the game, but also how to be respectable young men and represent the organization well. How do you acheive this by insulting and assaulting the players intrusted to your care? A real professional coach knows how to be firm without a horrible display of total disrespect for his team.
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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:15:35 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10576They should hire Penn States coach,he don’t beat anybody.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:09:38 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10559Athletic director Tim Pernetti was given a copy of the tape by a former employee in November and, after an independent investigator was hired to review it, Rice was suspended for three games, fined $75,000 and ordered to attend anger management classes. University president Robert Barchi signed off on the penalty.

But on Wednesday, Rutgers referred to new information and ”a review of previously discovered issues” as the reasons for Rice’s termination.

”Yesterday, I personally reviewed the video evidence, which shows a chronic and pervasive pattern of disturbing behavior,” Barchi said in a statement. ”I have now reached the conclusion that Coach Rice cannot continue to serve effectively in a position that demands the highest levels of leadership, responsibility and public accountability. He cannot continue to coach at Rutgers University.”

The video shows numerous clips of Rice at practice firing basketballs at players, hitting them in the back, legs, feet and shoulders. It also shows him grabbing players by their jerseys and yanking them around the court. Rice can also be heard yelling obscenities and using gay slurs.

”As I stated three months ago after I watched the video how deeply regrettable those actions (were). I also stated I was going to try to work on changing. I think I’ve accomplished a lot of that,” Rice said. ”I can’t say anything right now except I’m sorry and there will never be a time where I’m going to use any of that as an excuse or there will be any excuse.

”I’ve let so many people down: my players, my administration, Rutgers University, the fans. My family, who’s sitting in their house just huddled around because of the fact their father was an embarrassment to them. It’s troubling, but at some time maybe I’ll try to explain it. But right now there’s no explanation for what’s on those films. There is no excuse for it. I was wrong. I want to tell everybody who’s believed in me that I’m deeply sorry for the pain and hardship that I’ve caused. `’

Gov. Chris Christie, who said he was appalled when he saw the video on Tuesday, supported the firing at the state’s flagship public university.

”This was a regrettable episode for the university, but I completely support the decision to remove Coach Rice,” he said in a statement. ”It was the right and necessary action to take in light of the conduct displayed on the videotape.

”Parents entrust their sons to the Rutgers athletic department and the men’s basketball program at an incredibly formative period of their lives. The way these young men were treated by the head coach was completely unacceptable and violates the trust those parents put in Rutgers University. All of the student-athletes entrusted to our care deserve much better.”

Rice, who helped Robert Morris to two NCAA tournament appearances, was one of the hot coaching candidates in the spring of 2010. But he wasn’t able to push Rutgers into the upper echelon of the Big East Conference, and went 44-51. Rice was 16-38 in the Big East, after going 73-31 in three seasons at Robert Morris. The Scarlet Knights went 15-16 this season and 5-13 in the league.

Pernetti took responsibility for trying to rehabilitate Rice instead of firing him.

”Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but I was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community,” he said.

OUTTA HERE
These college hoops coaches are looking for new employment.

Rice was Pernetti’s first major hire after getting the AD’s job.

Pernetti said his decision to only suspend Rice was made in part because the coach was remorseful. Rice had a reputation as being ”a fiery guy with an edge” before coming to Rutgers and Pernetti said the two talked about it for five hours before he was hired.

The video was made by Eric Murdock, the former NBA player who was hired by Rice to be director of player development.

The two had a falling out over Murdock’s appearances at a camp, and Pernetti said Murdock’s contract was not renewed. Murdock, who said he was fired, then compiled the video, splicing together the practice lowlights of Rice’s first three years as coach.

Pernetti said about 60 percent of the incidents happened in Rice’s first season. He also was upset with Rice using a certain gay slur at a university where student Tyler Clementi committed suicide after a roommate used a webcam to see him kissing a man.

”I would tell you that that word was at the core of the suspension,” Pernetti said. ”It absolutely concerns me. It’s not acceptable.”

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:58:13 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10556i agreed with your first two paragraphs. then you started to sound like a nut. then i just realized you are completely disassociated with reality. what a roller coaster ride!

now i think you’re just a troll.

]]>By: eugenesaxehttp://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/#comment-10553
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:38:42 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10553Correction: He wasn’t fired for “violence/using gay slurs”, he was fired because someone outside the program found out about it and bitched.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:21:37 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10550Even though not addressed in this article, it is nonetheless true that before conducting each team practice session, Mike Rice met clandestinely with Don Imus in the morning for advice on sensitivity.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:04:25 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10549Tell me again how long it took for Rutgers to fire this guy AFTER they’d seen the video! Is winning that dear to you Rutgers????
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:13:54 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10545Athletic Director Pernettti should be fired also. If he thinks the behavior of Rice was not deserving of termination, then he is too stupid to hold the AD position. Rice is an idiot and a bully. Pernetti is incompetent.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:50:47 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10541To quote Lucky Wilbury (aka Bob Dylan) … “In Jersey anything’s legal as long as you don’t get caught”
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:41:23 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10540Despite the lack of on-court success it’s the video footage of abusive behavior in practices that led to Rice’s ouster.

Was it an I-phone? Only then was the administration forced to rectify the problem. Most likely the same mindset that ignores allegations that children are being raped in the showers by the school’s faculty.

Students need an outside body to report to that acts independent of the schools. More cameras need to be set up.

This is basically a meltdown of moral standards. The more asshojes and mentally sick unstable people infiltrate the system, the next thing you know..society will be allowing children to be molested and raped of their innocent minds….no wait….that’s already happening to 2 million children trapped in households that practice homosexuality.

It’s already happening, the devil at work!

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:35:59 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10539Time to clean house at Rutgers.In my opinion, anyone who was aware of this should be gone. Surprised that lawsuits haven’t been filed over this, No one deserves this type treatment.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:13:56 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10535Rice would be the fourth consecutive Rutgers men’s basketball coach to exit under a cloud of controversy. Kevin Bannon left in disgrace in 2001 after forcing his players to shoot naked free throws as part of a practice contest. Gary Waters’ fairly successful tenure ended shortly after he missed a 2006 game when a snowstorm trapped him at Kent State, his previous school, where he was being honored. Fred Hill was bought out in 2010 for insubordination after he made a scene at a Rutgers baseball game.

In the last year five players have transferred out of the program. At the end of last season Austin Carroll (American) and Gilvydas Biruta (Rhode Island) left, with Malick Kone, Vincent Garrett and Jerome Seagears announcing their intentions to leave at the end of the 2012-13 campaign.

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This kinda says it all, huh? Wow.

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:12:22 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10534What position did you play Noreen?
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:10:11 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10533oops, rice.
]]>By: dabbindanhttp://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/#comment-10532
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:09:12 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10532it wasn’t the video that lead to the firing of hall. it was the PUBLIC RELEASE of the video that lead to the firing. that exposes the AD’s serious lack of good judgement and his firing should follow.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:52 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10530I don’t know how the players managed not to gang up on him and dribble a few balls on his head. Wow. Congrats to those young men for controlling their emotions and behavior. Even though I am a level-headed woman, the videos would have been much different if he done those things to me.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:22:56 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10529Nc65 black man ,,,,, mike Brey at ND doesn’t resort to this nor does Boeheim. They are much better than this Rice dude just look at the records. That video was a disgrace. Did it work ? Rutgers was terrible. A liberal like yourself should be on par with evolution by now. The tactics of 1965 don’t work today. Grow up you bigot.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:50:59 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10522Rutgers needs to hire someone who can project a serene, calm image. Someone who can control his emotions.

The answer? Bobby Knight, of course. He looks like a choirboy when compared to Rice.

]]>By: jsm11http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/#comment-10521
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:46:17 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10521Don’t take a Rutgers sports scholarship until a brand new management team is replaced.
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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:24:10 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10513Joe Paterno was fired for not doing anything about abuse, so it’s fair. Also, kudos to the person(s) who set up the video camera with sound, to get the evidence on this kook, so that he couldn’t deny it.
]]>By: nc1965http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/03/rutgers-fires-mens-basketball-coach-mike-rice/#comment-10512
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:19:05 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=381249#comment-10512Do you know whose crying about this?

Out of touch sheltered white people. So much so that the sight of a black person scares some of them -s h i t l e s s-.

Well, they should have participated in organized sport in school. Now they will raise weak kneed wimpy kids.

Coaches like the prepares kids for life. My football coach in high school did some of the same things. We were undefeated.